Improvement in settees



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SETTEES.

No.1 81,360,, Patented Aug-.22,1876.

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BYRON A. OSGOOD, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT m SETTEE-S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,360, dated August22, 1876; application filed June 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BYRON A. OSGOOD, 0 Wakefield, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Settees,0hairs, and similar articles; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon. v

This is an improvement intended to be applied to chairs, settees, sofas,and-similar arsprings are set in front of the center .of the seats, withtheir closed ends forward, so that there may be more leverage, andconsequently more rocking motion, imparted to the settee by theoccupant. If the springs were directly under the center, the motionwould be a vertical not a rocking one and if the springs were reversed,so that their closed ends were toward the rear, the rocking motion wouldbe less easy. It will beseen that the seat rest-s wholly on the spring,and not on the body. Of course a lighter set of springs would be appliedto a chair than to a settee. By this means a hard settee, like thatshown in the drawings, is rendered easy and yielding to the form. Ipropose to substitute a spiral spring bent into the shape of the spring0, if desired, for lighter work.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I-claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' vIncombination with the seat and lower portion of a chair, settee,or'similar article of furniture, the springs 0, placed in front of thecenter of the seat, between the seat and lower portion, and having theirclosed ends toward the front, the said seat resting solely upon the saidsprings, substantially as and for the purpose herein described..

BYRON A. OSGOOD. Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, B. W. WILLIAMS.

